Celebrating Halloween: Party Ideas

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

All Saints' Eve is the perfect occasion to throw a party. If you have children, they will be happy: the kids love masquerades and will be happy to help you prepare a "terrible" holiday. It is also sometimes useful for an adult company to fall into childhood and play pranks. Organizing a memorable Halloween for your friends is not so difficult, the main thing here is to choose a couple of good ideas and take care of the festive mood of the company.

Define the subject

There are a lot of horrors in the world, choose your favorite subspecies. How about a vampire night? Exquisitely served table, tomato juice in glasses. False fangs, pale skin and bloody lips are welcome. At the zombie party, you will have to arrange a competition for the best zombie walk. Here, old, tattered things will come in handy, which for some reason you have not yet thrown away. You can devote a party to some favorite thriller, bloody computer game, TV series. Put all your friends on Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, The Walking Dead, or Dexter? Celebrate it!

We decorate the house

It is important to create a suitable environment. Take black paper and scissors, cut out the silhouettes of a bat or a cat. If you don't know how to draw, find drawings with matching silhouettes on the Internet and print. Glue the resulting scary pictures to the windows with transparent tape or attach them to the walls with buttons. Here are other topics that are relevant on the eve of All Saints Day: tombstones, skeletons, spiders and cobwebs, trees with bare branches, crows, ghosts, witches.

Buy a pumpkin, cut off the top and take out the contents. Cut out your eyes and a sinister smile, put a candle inside. The main Halloween attribute is ready!

Find on the Internet and print old photographs of countesses or simply elderly people. Unleash your imagination: take a pencil and turn them into witches and vampires. Sign and place the creepy "portraits of relatives" in the rooms. If you make the portraits large enough, they can be arranged on the wall for a Halloween "art gallery", like in old castles from horror films.

Unusual lighting will add mystery to the atmosphere: turn off the overhead light, place table lamps on the floor, and candles on the tables.

What to wear

Think about costumes. Various masks, ears, vampire teeth, black cloaks and bat wings are sold in abundance in carnival costume stores (there are also plenty of online stores). If there is no opportunity or desire to buy a suit, transform into something that is at home. Here are some of the simplest "recipes". Have an old white sheet? Make holes-eyes in it: the ghost is ready, wild, but cute, as Carlson used to say. If you find a large piece of black cloth, make a cloak out of it, you will be Countess Dracula. Found a white coat? It's luck, all you have to do is slap something red on him (red lipstick, for example), and you have a killer doctor costume. Keep in mind that tomato juice and tomato paste are not suitable for “bloody streaks” on clothes: when they dry, they acquire an orange hue. Didn't find anything at all? Take a bandage or toilet paper and transparent tape: you have to be a mummy.

An imperfectly thought-out suit can be compensated for with impressive makeup and accessories. Whiten your face and get to work: you can depict black sunken eye sockets, like a zombie, or draw fatal arrows and scarlet lips, suitable for a vampire. If you are an esthete, make a beautiful abstract drawing, body art on your cheekbone.

Cooking the table

Don't forget the special Halloween menu. Not only pumpkins can be carved with scary faces: multi-colored sweet peppers and any citrus fruits are also suitable. You can make special Halloween cookies. It is the same as usual, but the drawings made with multi-colored glaze are thematic.

Scum in the lens

Have a "scary" photo shoot. Come up with the stories you like in advance and prepare what you need.

If you saddle a mop and jump, you can get a shot with a flying witch.

Ask two friends to hold an unfolded white sheet, place a bright light source behind it, and photograph the mysterious shadows of your guests as they lie on this sheet. For the model, the main thing here is to take a more dramatic pose.

Picture villains busy with their daily routine: vampires bite, psychopaths run with axes, zombies reach for their favorite dish - brains.

Then these photos should be printed and made a "Halloween" photo album. And how can you please your friends on social networks!

Scary movie

Are you going to celebrate Halloween?

	Yes, definitely!
	I have not decided yet.
	No, it’s unlikely.

Play a movie or cartoon that is relevant to the topic. If there are children at the party and they are not quite babies, they might like The Nightmare Before Christmas. Both cartoons and many of Tim Burton's films, beautiful and gothic, are perfect in spirit for the eve of All Saints. Do you like horror movies? Play Halloween. Friends want to laugh? Scary Movie will do. Do you prefer something not scary, rather mysterious and romantic? Put on a fantasy with a mysterious atmosphere. For example, "The Legend" directed by Ridley Scott, where young Tom Cruise played one of his first roles. Do you respect Soviet classics? Viy will be an excellent choice.

Remember, entourage, costumes and other organization are not the main thing. The most important thing is a good mood. Be the life of the party. And a terrible Halloween for you!